Much like comedy-horror, black comedy, or dark comedy, is a type of comedy film that often uses cruelty as the source of humour.

Much of the genre's atmosphere echoes film noir, and written works in the genre often use techniques from detective fiction.

She starred in Alfred Hitchcock's suspense film, The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) with James Stewart.

Much later, after the film was released and his experiences during its production proved unhappy, Reynolds complained to Lemmon and described Avildsen as an " asshole ", whereby Lemmon replied, " I guess you could say that ".

Cotten made his film debut in the Welles-directed short Too Much Johnson, a comedy that was intended to complement an aborted 1938 Mercury stage production of William Gillette's 1890 play.

Much silent film acting is apt to strike modern-day audiences as simplistic or campy.

Much of the current popularity is due to the film Quigley Down Under that featured a Sharps Model 1874 rifle.

Much research has focussed on layer deposit techniques, applying a thin film of material onto a stable substrate, but this is currently only suitable for small-scale electrical circuits.

Much of what was used in the film was purchased from the library of Capitol Records, and an album of the soundtrack was released at one point.

Much press comment focused on the unanswered question in the film of who started the war.

Much of the film drew heavy visual inspiration from Rockwell's art.

Alfred Hitchcock did much to popularise the spy film in the 1930s with his influential thrillers The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), The 39 Steps ( 1935 ), Sabotage ( 1937 ) and The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ).

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) Alfred Hitchcock film about a family trying to save their child and a politician from an organization of assassins being hunted by MI6.

* The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1956 ) remake of the 1934 Hitchcock film by Hitchcock himself starring James Stewart and Doris Day.

Much of his early life was portrayed in his autobiographical book, America America, which he made into a film in 1963.

Much of the inspiration which led Bogdanovich to his cinematic creations came from early viewings of the film Citizen Kane.

In 1935 Fonda starred in the RKO film I Dream Too Much with the opera star Lily Pons.

Much of the on-campus scenes in the 2000 film Wonder Boys, starring Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire, were filmed in Carnegie Mellon's campus.

Much like the album, the film garnered more critical praise than the previous year's Under the Cherry Moon ; however, its box office receipts were minimal, and it quickly left theaters.

Much of its popularity is attributed to the fact that in the 1971 film Le Mans, Steve McQueen's character, Michael Delaney, drives for the Gulf team.

When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Lorre took refuge first in Paris and then London, where he was noticed by Ivor Montagu, Alfred Hitchcock's associate producer for The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ), who reminded the director about Lorre's performance in M. They first considered him to play the assassin in the film, but wanted to use him in a larger role, despite his limited command of English, which Lorre overcame by learning much of his part phonetically.

Barrymore was also portrayed by Christopher Plummer ( who was a friend of Diana Barrymore ) in the 1996 two-man show Barrymore, later filmed in 2012 and by Errol Flynn in the 1958 biographical film about Diana entitled Too Much, Too Soon.

Much of the film version was shot at Carnforth railway station in Lancashire, then a junction on the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.

" You Like Me Too Much " and " Tell Me What You See " were rejected for use in the film by its director, Richard Lester, though they did appear on the album ( and also on Beatles VI ).

Much of the film was shot in Monument Valley, a scenic desert region straddling the Arizona-Utah border used in other John Ford movies.

Much of biochemistry deals with the structures, functions and interactions of cellular components such as proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids and other biomolecules — although increasingly processes rather than individual molecules are the main focus.

Much of the play, steeped as it is in scriptural allusion, deals with the subject of religion.

Much of Kaçan's writings deals with life in Istanbul, in particular its poor quarter Dolapdere ( not far from Taksim square ).

Much of WMCF deals with the important concepts of infinity and of limit processes, seeking to explain how finite humans living in a finite world could ultimately conceive of the actual infinite.

Much more importantly, in financial terms, their appearance in advertising can amount to an endorsement, attracting far greater rewards, especially when they conclude deals to advertise a brand exclusively, as " the face " of that brand.

Much of the work deals with ideas such as the " eternal recurrence of the same ", the parable on the " death of God ", and the " prophecy " of the Übermensch, which were first introduced in The Gay Science.

Much of his work deals with the relation between Japanese culture and Western culture.

Much of the book deals with the psychological, physical, and personal challenges that manifest when time travel is possible for a single individual at the touch of a button.

Much of this book deals with the 108th Seabees, the unit which was responsible for construction of the Mulberry.

Much of her account deals with the work of Robert Porter Allen.

Much depended on the merchants and the captain ; the merchants had to close a large number of favourable deals, and the captain had the extremely difficult task of safely sailing the ship to China and back.

Much of their lyrics and music deals with political issues concerning the Jewish people and Israel, most notably the concept albums Kaddish ( 1994 ) and Collective Demise ( 2002 ).

Much of the research within New Institutionalism deals with the pervasive influence of institutions on human behavior through rules, norms, and other frameworks.

Much of her work deals with looking for evidence to support the proposal that our universe might be finite in size due to its having a nontrivial topology.

Much of the series deals with serious moral issues relating to war, the consequences of war, torture, rape, slavery, democide, human brutality and the exploitation of children.

Much of the film's plot deals with the dying towns along Route 66.

Much of the show deals with the process of writing and recording songs.

Much of the first episode deals with her relationship with her boyfriend, Josh Henderson ; the two seem very affectionate, and Simpson says in her car that she likes to wonder what Josh is thinking about and then turn to a radio station to get an answer from a random song — for example, she asks, " Is Josh having fun tonight?

Much of his writing deals with Angola's political history in the 20th century.

Much of her work deals with the concepts of locality and space.

Much of the engineering involved with drive-by-wire technologies including ETC deals with failure and fault management.

Much of her poetry deals with love, apartheid, the role of women, and the politics of gender.

Much of his research deals with ecology and environmental science.

Much of the firm's profits was earned from a relatively small number of deals, with Bain Capital's overall success and failure rate being about even.